Thursday, November 20, 2008

NASA's New Deep Space Communication System




 NASA announced it has  tested the first deep-space communications network, and it worked! The new network, modeled on the Internet, was able to transmit a lot of space images between Earth and a NASA science spacecraft located more than 20 million miles away, in a decent amount of time. It is designed so that if communication is cut off, then instead of the data just being dropped, like on the earths internet, it is saved and transmitted once the obstruction has resolved itself, it transmits.


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